Native American Tribes in Louisiana

Note: The website for the Confederation has expired - BUT GOOD NEWS! Paul LeBlanc has found a way using a feature called WayBack to restore the site to an earlier time. I'm still trying to contact the Tribal officials re the current and planned status.

There is a separate website for the Isle de Jean Charles Band. Links for the other two groups will be added asap. If anyone has info, please send an email to cajun@thecajuns.com

Natchitoch - Moved from Natchitoches, LA in 1858 to Indian
Territory - now Oklahoma. Link is to a Handbook of Texas Online article. Image is a plaque in Natchitoches, LA. Click on it for a larger view.

Known as the "Lily of the Mohawks," Kateri was born in 1656 to a pagan Iroquois father and an Algonquin Christian mother in what is today upstate New York. Her parents and only brother died when she was 4 during a smallpox epidemic that left her badly scarred and with impaired eyesight. She went to live with her uncle, a Mohawk, and was baptized Catholic by Jesuit missionaries. But she was ostracized and persecuted by other natives for her faith, and she died in Canada when she was 24.